Extreme Unction

Idolized him and Basketball Diaries as adolescent. Finally got to meet
him on junket for the film version with Leo DiCaprio. Table of dickhead
critics -- who had just been asking DiCaprio if he was concerned about
playing "gay" Arthur Rimbaud in his next film -- is completely silenced
as Carroll and I talk Frank O'Hara and William Blake.

You can be sure some of them left wanting to meet Frank O'Hara's agent, though.

As a novice at these things, I was frankly appalled at the slippery and
toxic combination of cynicism and sycophancy in my alleged journalistic
colleagues. They would knife these actors and directors with words
behind their backs, while unctuously sucking up to their faces.